8 GYPAETIN.E. 



cliffs, old buildings and such like places. It makes a large nest 

 of twigs, lined with old rags and rubbish ; straggling, if built 

 on a cliff or a building rather more compact if on a tree. In 

 the latter situation, the nest is generally placed at the junction 

 of a large limb with the trunk, but sometimes on a horizontal 

 branch, very rarely in a fork. The eggs, two in number, are 

 very handsome ; they are somewhat chalky in texture, greyish- 

 white in color, richly blotched and clouded with deep brownish- 

 red. They vary much in shape, size and color. 



They average 2*6 inches in length by T98 in breadth. 



SUB-FAMILY, Gypaetinae, Bonn $ Gray. 



Bill strong, lengthened, compressed, straight ; upper man- 

 dible ascending in front of cere, then curved, with the tip 

 much hooked ; nostrils oval, vertical, covered with dense rigid 

 recumbent bristles ; lower mandible with a beard, or tuft of 

 rigid setaceous bristles directed forward ; head closely feathered ; 

 wings very long, the first quill rather shorter than the second, 

 the third longest ; feet short, stout ; the tarsus hirsute to the 

 toes ; the thigh-coverts lengthened ; the three front toes slightly 

 united by membrane, middle-toe very long, hind-toe short ; 

 claws strong, moderately curved ; tail cuneate, long, 



GENUS, Qypaetus, Storr. 

 The characters are the same as those of the sub-family. 



Gypaetus barbatus, Lin. 



7. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 12 ; Murray's Vertebrate 

 Zoology of Sind, p. 64 ; Hume's Scrap Book, p. 35. 



THE LAMMERGEYEE. 



Length, 44 to 49 ; expanse, 99 to 110 ; wing, 30 to 34 ; tail, 

 21 to 25 ; tarsus, 3'9 to 47 ; bill from gape, 4 to 47. 



Bill bluish-horny, dusky at tip ; irides pale-orange or straw 

 color; sclerotic membrane blood-red; feet plumbeous; claws 

 black. 



Head whitish with dark stripes, tinged rufous ; cheek-stripe 

 and supercilium black ; feathers of the nape lengthened, creamy- 

 white, tinged wiih bright tawny; upper parts black; 

 the back and rump paler, with white shafts, and the coverts 

 with white streaks; greater-coverts, wing and tail ashy-black, 

 with darker edges and white shafts to the feathers ; beneath dull 

 orange or ferruginous, with a more or less marked black pectoral 

 collar (not always present ), paling below the breast, and becom- 

 ing albescent or nearly white on the lower belly and under 

 tail-coverts. 



The Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture only occurs in the 

 northern parts of Sind. 



